Subject: Exim conference 2008 -- Preliminary Announcement and Call for Papers
A few months back, an Exim / e-mail conference was proposed.
but it didn't go ahead because not enough people were interested.
At the recent Exim course given by Philip Hazel in Cambridge we asked
again, and there's been a lot more interest (partly because timing is
better, partly because Philip's course won't be run anymore) so the
Conference will go ahead now in 2008.
Regards,
Niall
ps: apologies to those who receive both postings
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E-Mail Systems Conference 2008
(Exim and other mail systems)
Preliminary Announcement and Call for Papers
Thu/Fri 3/4-Apr-2008
Birmingham, England
Related conference:
This conference is being run with the cooperation of the UKUUG
-- the UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group. The UKUUG
conference takes place immediately before the E-Mail Systems
conference, on Tue/Wed 1/2 April 2008, at the same venue. The
themes of the UKUUG conference are Virtualization and Dynamic
Languages.
Purpose of Conference:
The aim of the conference is to provide:
* A forum to discuss practical experiences using Exim
and other e-mail systems, for a wide range of users, from ISPs
to tiny sites.
* Tutorials for various levels of expertise.
* A venue for the community, for informal networking and
meeting socially.
* A focus for the Exim developers, especially now that Philip
Hazel, the creator and lead developer is retiring. We will
provide meeting facilities for all those interested in
getting involved in maintaining and developing Exim.
The last conference (2005), was solely about Exim. This time
we have broadened the theme because many topics -- issues with
very large mail systems, spam filtering, resilience of mail
systems, mail server clustering, mail performance, running
message stores, techniques, etc. -- are common to all, and we
want as broad a community as possible to participate.
Call for papers, tutorials, BOF topics
Papers:
Send abstracts of about 200 words, along with a short
biographical note, to exim08-speakers (at) uit.co.uk. Talks
should last 30-60 minutes, including Q&A.
Tutorials:
If you would like to present a tutorial, send an abstract as
above.
Suggestions:
If you don't want to speak, but there is a topic you're
particularly interested in, or a speaker you think would be
good for the conference, or a tutorial you'd like to attend,
do let us know on the above e-mail address.
Location:
Birmingham Conservatoire
University of Central England
Birmingham B3 3HG
England.
Timetable (provisional):
Thursday 3-Apr-2008
All day: Conference papers
Early evening: BOFS
Evening: Social event / conference dinner
Friday 4-Apr-2008
Morning: tutorial(s)
Mailing list:
To be added to the mailing list for announcements etc.
about the conference, e-mail a (possibly empty) message to:
exim08-subscribe (at) uit.co.uk
Further information, as it becomes available:
http://www.uit.co.uk/mail-conference
Footnote:
The new second edition of Philip Hazel's book "The Exim SMTP
Mail Server" has just been printed.
